FACULTY

Claudia Santin, EdD

Dean, College of Business

Dr. Claudia Santin, EdD, has, over the last 25 years, established a reputation as a pragmatic change agent and effective team builder.

Dr. Santin has served in the capacity of university president and provost/academic vice president at Northcentral University. Under her leadership, the NCU School of Business received ACBSP accreditation.

At Nova Southeastern University, Dr. Santin was associate dean of business at the Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship and then dean of leadership studies at the Fischler Graduate School. In these series of progressively demanding positions, she blended the components of a superb higher education experience, especially in the field of online delivery systems, with the demands of both the domestic and international marketplace, consistently achieving the delicate balance of quality and profit.

Dr. Santin pursues ongoing professional development, as well as maintains a consistent schedule of conference presentation and publication. She has received awards for excellence in teaching and has earned numerous certificates and post-master’s credits in online teaching. She serves as an associate editor for Management Education: An International Journal and Change Management: An International Journal.

Dr. Santin also serves as a peer reviewer for The Journal of Virtual Leadership, the Journal of eLearning and Teaching, and the Journal of Online Higher Education. She is also vice president and executive director of the eLearning Institute.

Dr. Santin has been a member of CUC’s faculty since 2008 and previously served as assistant dean of the College of Graduate and Innovative Programs.

MA, Counseling and Personal Services. College of New Jersey, Ewing, N.J.

BA, Psychology. College of New Jersey, Ewing, N.J.

Academic and Professional Highlights

Presentations

“Championing Diversity and Inclusion to Create a Culture of Innovation” (With K. Hollywood, and D. Blaess). Fifteenth (February, 2015) International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations at the University of California-Berkeley.

“Effective E-Mentoring for a Diversity of Doctoral Scholars” (with K. Hollywood and D. Blaess). Fifteenth (February, 2015) International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford.

“A Mandate for Change for Innovation in Higher Education” (with K. Hollywood and D. Blaess). Fourteenth (2014) International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford.

“Maximizing Personnel Using Coaching Techniques” (with K. Hollywood and D. Blaess). Fourteenth (2014) International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford.

“Cracking the Dissertation Code: Clarifying the Action Research Process for Education Students” (with K. Hollywood). 20th International College of Teaching and Learning Conference, Jacksonville, Fla., April 13-17, 2009.

“A Case Study in Developing Outreach Business Programs: The Zhenhua Port Machinery Company of Shanghai, PRC” (with Gardiner). Multicultural Affairs in Higher Education National Conference, San Antonio, Texas, September 2000.

“Value-Driven Customer Service Training in a Graduate Business School Setting" (with Gardiner, Barnes, and Preziosi). Applied Business Research Conference, Mexico, 2000.

“Value-Driven Management as an Integrated Philosophy in an Innovative Non-Traditional MBA Curriculum” (with Gardiner, Jones and Pohlman). 4th Annual International Conference on Innovation in Instruction for Business and Related Disciplines, Orlando, Fla., 2000.